Tucker Carlson

And the regime that we described as illegitimate, this crazed theocracy, these Stone Age people, are going to, when this is all over, remain in control of Iran.

So again, those are losses, just objectively.

And yet, and here's the point,

A ceasefire would still be a win for the United States because war, total war, is just that bad.

It's so bad that even absorbing some humiliation and some measurable losses is still better than that.

And most people understand that intuitively.

You don't need to be ideological or interested in geopolitics to understand that Americans getting killed, the country going bankrupt, commodity prices wrecking the global economy.

The uncertainty itself is a cost.

You don't know what the future holds.

You can't plan for it.

All of this is much worse than what we'd be getting with an agreement that diminishes to some extent because it's very obvious we could be still further diminished and further wounded by this.

So that was the state of play.

At 632, the president announces what is, objectively speaking, not a win.

And yet most reasonable people accept it as a win because, relatively speaking, that's a win.

A ceasefire is a good thing.

And anyone who doesn't think it's a good thing has to explain why it would be in America's interest, the tangible interest of the United States, to continue this.

To what objective?

What is the goal?

No one has ever really explained what that is.

Degrade Iran, change the regime.